Alan H's photos with the keyword: maori

Time Team's Tony Robinson outside the Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

Of the 25 metre long Maori war canoe (Waka). Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

Te Toki a Tapiri is the last of the great Maori war canoes (Waka). With the hull adzed from a single huge totara log, the canoe is 25 metres long and can carry 100 warriors. It was built in about 1836 for Te Waaka Tarakau who lived in Hawke's Bay and is named after Tapiri, a famous ancestor of Tarakau. Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

Ancestral figures of Maori chief Te Pokiha Taranui carved into the porch of his pataka (storehouse). Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

On the side of the pataka (storehouse). Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

A sailing canoe from Fiji used for fishing and inter-island transport. Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

This pataka was the property of Maori chief Te Pokiha Taranui. Many figures on the porch represent well-known ancestors of his tribe. The pataka was completed in the early 1870s and stood at Maketu in the Bay of Plenty for many years. Apart from its use as a storehouse it was intended to symbolise the status and power of Te Pokiha. Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.

Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand.